Posted on October 17, 2008

A Somali Influx Unsettles Latino Meatpackers

Kirk Semple, New York Times, Oct. 15, 2008

Like many workers at the meatpacking plant here, Raul A. Garcia, a Mexican-American, has watched with some discomfort as hundreds of Somali immigrants have moved to town in the past couple of years, many of them to fill jobs once held by Latino workers taken away in immigration raids.

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